Sweet dreams are made of this: The need for narrowly tailored statutory protection for documented dreamers

The growing backlog of immigrant visa petitions and legal permanent resident adjustment applications is a harsh reality of the American dream. Dependent children of immigrants can wait decades for their parents' visas to become current, only to age out of dependent status before stepping foot on American soil. Dependent children of nonimmigrants seeking to become legal permanent residents age out before their parents' adjustment application is approved – leaving them at risk of removal. This Note proposes a temporary visa status for these dependents, allowing them to maintain legal status in America and remain with their parents.     

Consenting to Exclude? Empirical Patterns of Democracy and Immigrant Integration Policy

Studies explaining immigrant integration policies commonly focus on single aspects such as right-populist party politics or the immigration legacy of a country. This neglects the overall character of the democratic system within which policy-making unfolds. Research on empirical patterns of democracy, in turn, suggests that consensus democracies pursue ‘kinder and gentler’ policies and outperform majoritarian democracies in terms of minority representation. The article tests whether this conclusion holds for the specific group of immigrant minorities and analyses the relationship between patterns of democracy and immigrant integration policy using a new dataset on empirical democracies in 30 European and North American countries. Simultaneously estimating the character of democratic systems in terms of power dispersion and its effect on integration policies, the analysis reveals a distinct ‘Janus-faced’ pattern: while proportional power dispersion tends to coincide with more inclusive immigrant integration policies, pronounced veto structures tend to foster exclusion.     

浅析美国华人餐饮业的现状

作为一代又一代美国华人移民多数人主要的谋生手段,华人餐饮业面临着激烈的竞争。为此,一些中小型华人餐饮业相继使用廉价的新移民劳动力甚至非法入境的"黑工"。但廉价的劳动力的使用并不能彻底改变华人餐饮业恶性竞争的困境,而且,一些华人员工开始运用法律,维护自身权益。与此同时,华人餐饮业在一如既往地关心祖国发展的同时,踊跃参与美国生活,并积极与时俱进,谋求与美国社会的同步发展。同时餐饮业主也不放弃致力于国家移民政策的改变,以企获得更多的新移民劳动力。